Word: debarking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time bomb in the engine room to blow up their prize rather than surrender her. After eleven days they arrived, not in Germany, but at Tromsö, Norway, flying a German flag. Authorities here saw through Flint's disguise, let the prize crew take fresh water and debark their British prisoners (with whom Mr. McConnochie escaped), but insisted that the U. S. flags be repainted before the ship cleared for Murmansk, Russia...
After a sharp radiogram from Brien McMahon, criminal division chief in the Attorney General's Office, Judge Thomas snorted that a subpoena was unnecessary, promised to debark in the Canal Zone and return immediately if necessity demanded. Though Federal authorities said they wanted Judge Thomas and his books chiefly for the Manton investigation, they confessed their interest in a case from Judge Thomas' own court: the McKesson & Robbins receivership that exploded the notorious Coster-Musica drug scandal (TIME...
...Mystified, passengers watched 99 of the 206 crew, mostly Chinese, their belongings on their backs, shuffle off the ship, followed by manicurist, barber and orchestra. Finally they were told the reason and 78 of 90 passengers of the President Jackson were politely asked to pack up and debark. Only the first twelve who had booked passages would be allowed to sail. The indignant "left behinds" booked on other lines, and at evening the 14,000-ton President Jackson sailed from a deserted dock, demoted, in almost the twinkling of an eye by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Marine...
This week a special train chartered by the Department of Labor will start from Manhattan, proceed to Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, on across the plains and the Rocky Mountains to San Francisco picking up passengers as it goes. Four weeks later these same passengers will all debark from the President Coolidge at Manila, having enjoyed a trip halfway around the world entirely at the expense of the U. S. Government. Anyone in the U. S. may join the party provided he is a Filipino born in the Philippines...
...paying adventurers next saw him. Captain Wanderwell was slumped on the floor, a bullet from a .38 calibre pistol in his back, one hand over his face, the other clutching a bunch of keys. Just as no one had seen the stranger come aboard, no one saw him debark. Police investigation soon revealed that the Captain, a Pole interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children...